Technology

Twitter’s lawsuit to force Elon Musk to complete his $44 billion buyout bid is set to go to trial on October 17, a US judge has ordered, in a case with major stakes for both sides. The trial is due to open in a court in the eastern state of Delaware and is set to last five days to decide ...

Google-parent Alphabet on Tuesday reported its profit in the recently ended quarter slipped to $16 billion as its long sizzling ad revenue growth cooled. Big tech firms are grappling with multiple problems, from inflation to the war in Ukraine, and results for this quarter have not been great so far, reports AFP. Alphabet’s revenue in the period grew 13 percent ...

Twitter spent $33m (£27m) on Elon Musk’s proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022. It also said its number of monthly daily users had risen to 237m – but it reported a net loss of $270m, which was worse than expected. Mr Musk has since changed his mind about the purchase, and a court date is ...

The United States said Friday it would resume flights to the International Space Station with Russia, despite its attempts to isolate Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine. “To ensure continued safe operations of the International Space Station, protect the lives of astronauts and ensure continuous US presence in space, NASA will resume integrated crews on US crew spacecraft and the ...

After a months-long contest among U.S. students to name NASA’s latest Mars rover, the agency will reveal the name of the rover Thursday, according to a release of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Tuesday. The Mars 2020 rover was the subject of a nationwide naming contest in 2019, which drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from across ...

Samsung Galaxy S20 vs Plus vs Ultra Samsung’s latest Galaxy S20 flagship can make you break up with your dearest Smartphone. Ending all the leaks and rumors, Samsung is releasing their awaited Galaxy Series flagship smartphones S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra on 6th March, 2020 in the USA. Though this trio share some common features, the Ultra model is ...

Walton, a local electronics and ICT product manufacturer, has begun exporting  ‘Made-in-Bangladesh’ smartphones to the United States (US) and air-conditioner to India. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the export process on Sunday while visiting factories of Walton Hi-Tech Industries Ltd at Chandra of Gazipur. Five other projects, including an elevator factory, were launched in his presence. “Countrymen are happy ...

Search engine giant Google is celebrating the leap year date  with an animated doodle. This is further illustrated with Google Doodle’s home page saying, “We HOP you have a good one—Happy Leap Day!.” February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2016, 2020, ...

Scientists have detected evidence of a colossal explosion in space – five times bigger than anything observed before. The huge release of energy is thought to have emanated from a supermassive black hole some 390 million light years from Earth. The eruption is said to have left a giant dent in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.Researchers reported their findings in The Astrophysical ...

In this artist’s concept of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars, layers of the planet’s subsurface can be seen below and dust devils can be seen in the background. Photo: Courtesy NASA has published a set of six papers this week describing its InSight lander’s findings above and below the surface of Mars. These findings reveal a planet alive with quakes, ...